Miranda

Sacred Sister Miranda (ミランダ) of Mille Seseau is the final character to join the party in Legend of Dragoon. She replaces Shana in Disc 3 when the latter feels her Dragoon Spirit reject her as its host in the chamber of the Signet Sphere. Despite her abrasive personality, she is also a healer and tended to the sick and the wounded before she joined the party. She is the character of choice for using magic attack items since she has the highest Magic Attack of the entire party.

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Miranda has long golden blond hair with fringes in each sides and brown eyes. Like Dart, she wears a red headband but it contains copper-like outlines.

Her primary outfit consists of a red high-neck armor midriff with the same copper outlines with white and black striped long sleeved skintight short dress underneath with a red v-belt which tucked into her dress, and brown thigh-high boots with folded sleeves. Like Shana, she wields the bow and arrow during the battle and wears brown gloves with red and brown accents.

As a Dragoon, her appearance has a minor resemblance to Shirley's Dragoon form and as a contrast to Shana's.

She wears a white silver Dragoon armor with red outlines and at the back of her armor becomes backless, a matching white silver greaves which is connected to her armor, red and white silver upper sleeves in each side of her shoulder and an aqua blue gem at the center of her armor, black tights, a knee length white silver Dragoon armor boots with a red gem in the center and wields the bow and arrow which transforms into a Dragoon Bow in a silver motif. She also wears a long white silver armor gloves and wears a red orange dragon headband on her forehead. Her Dragoon wings is different than Shana's Dragoon wings as the color of her wings are a glowing yellow and white silver with red orange outlines.

In her in-game while in this form, her tights became dark gray and her Dragoon wings appear as pale gold and white silver with red orange outlines.

She is a solid, reliable companion, brave and dedicated to the defense of Deningrad. However, Miranda is a harsh taskmaster with her soldiers in Deningrad, and either utterly candid or terribly rude depending on the players viewpoint. From that, she has also been known to slap her fellow soldiers, even Rose. On one occasion she berates her guards for having let Lloyd past them, despite the party's prior assessment of Lloyd as being an unusually powerful opponent. Despite her hard as nails exterior, she has a tender heart when it comes to Queen Theresa and her fellow Sacred Sisters.

Miranda, like Shana, uses a bow, so the developers decided not allow her the ability to use additions either. Her regular attacks are the weakest of the party, as they are not enhanced by addition bonuses, making gaining the SP necessary for her to unlock the higher ranking spells difficult. Because of her high speed stat and low attack stat, she can quickly attack a weak enemy multiple times, thus often gaining the most SP of any party member in a single battle. She gains Spirit Points (SP) from attacks automatically, and the number rises with her Dragoon Level. While initially the value is low, at level 5 she gains 150 SP per attack, making her a strategic healer who can quickly gain back DLVs in the middle of combat. Miranda may not even have to DLV up greatly because she receives Shana's spirit and stats.

In order to DLV up quickly, she is best equipped with accessories that can help her gain SP such as the Spirit Ring (because of her high speed, at 20 Sp per turn, it can be very helpful), of course the Wargod's Sash, giving 50% more SP per attack, is wonderful for any character.

The White Silver Dragoon Spirit's specialty is healing the party. While the Dragoon does have some attacks, 75% of the spells heal the party. Also, since the White Silver Dragoon is a strong magic user, the offensive spells do quite a bit of damage.

Since this Dragoon's physical attacks are normally weaker, the percentage of boost is up to 220%, instead of the normal 170%. But she is still weak either in dragoon form or normal form. Her magical damage vastly makes up for her lack of physical damage.

Miranda was born in the northern country of Mille Seseau. Her mother named her after a goddess of the same name and was proud of her child. However, her mother was not suited to the life of a housewife while her father was a lazy, unemployed, alcoholic who had a bad habit of drinking away all the money Miranda's mother made. This frustration led her to abuse Miranda before she eventually abandoned Miranda and her husband for a new life with another man. This loss affected Miranda greatly, but instead of becoming over emotional, she started to lock her emotions suppressing the issue deep within herself. Eventually her father died leaving her an orphan with nothing. She spent a lot of time at Kashua Glacier to contemplate her troubled past in solitude.

She reveals in disk 4, that she hates roses because when her mother was "hurting her" there were roses in the background. She claimed that roses got their red from the blood of others, and were disgusting things.

When Miranda is Dispirited, she slouches forward while standing and moves her head in a dizzy motion.

When Blocking, Miranda holds her bow horizontally in front of her face.

When in Critical Health, Miranda stands leaning forward while holding her stomach with her right hand.

Miranda has two idle poses; her first has her putting her right hand on her hip and leaning slightly, her second has her stand perfectly straight while crossing her arms.

Unlike her predecessors Shirley and Shana, Miranda's Dragoon armor shape is completely different. It may be possible due to the fact that Shana and Shirley were younger than Miranda when the White-Silver Dragoon chose them. This may have caused Miranda's armor shape to adjust to her more mature and serious personality.